[Voterescue] Iowa straw poll on Diebold machines rigged?

[marztheron at austin.rr.com]

BradBlog
26,000 total Tickets sold - 14,302 votes tabulated
Sun Aug 12, 2007 01:30
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According to DerekLarsson over at BradBlog,

There were 26,000 total Tickets sold for this event, yet there were only
just 14,302 votes tabulated.

Now think about that for a minute.
26,000 people purchase tickets to go to a Straw Poll event, and yet we
are to believe that 12,000 of those people couldn’t even care less about
the voting part? Just what were they there for?

I don't buy it. This is not believable.
An Investigation is needed here.

I think what happened is that the Diebold E-Voting machines threw away
votes --- as we also saw last year with the 2006 Florida-13 race and the
NC-08 race (hurting the more liberal candidate in each race) --
And, these machines most likely threw away the votes that were intended
for only the anti-Iraq, anti-War, anti-Central-Bank-monopoly,
anti-Patriot-Act, anti-Empire candidate in the race, Ron Paul.

We all know that Ron Paul had a huge very visible and very vocal crowd
of supporters there at the event, that were perhaps equal in number to,
or at least in the same ballpark as Mitt Romney.

So, if, for example, the machine only registered 1 out of every 4 Ron
Paul votes --- for Ron Paul himself --- and then threw the rest out,
that would explain his much lighter than expected 1,300 vote total, and
also explain some of the huge gap between ticket buyers (26,000) and the
total people recognized as having voted (14,000) in the event.

Of course, it could even be worse than this (even more Ron Paul voters
votes thrown away), thus robbing Paul of an outright victory in the
Straw Poll.

I cannot prove that this specifically is what happened.
But the point is that, without a open, transparent, inspectible,
verifiable (in real-time) voting environment, which is a requirement for
any Democracy, we will never know here.

I know this, 26,000 get tickets to an voting event, and only 14,302
bother to vote-?? That dog don't hunt!
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